Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 717e02759abd0510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-04-11 20:14:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 278387fe4f5be6aac64ed62866f9520e SHA-1: b32a41612871b15cfaa15f2e7e86c53d7cbdc673 SHA-256: 717e02759abd0510c9051b4000777dfc59409e1a5eaa5974714c87c921dedcd0
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links disguised as a service manual, a common lure for phishing attacks. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of many external links suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/65810703597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/60165950635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/dovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/basolidigululaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/32710798707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/viwubamonutimujogigifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/62332338419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/27804174203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=honda+hs622+service+manual+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9F3 5504 bytes
SHA-256: c3196515dfa06e864685f9ebd1c4ef1da3f9370eab6824466cf0eef508cad432
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC79 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 7d8bf05b41eaf15fbe5624b1878af2b61fd36223628475700e38fc6a596e9969
font_02_sfnt_off00010e83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E83 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71

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